Quebec: Social Change and Political Crisis

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Quebec: Social Change and Political Crisis
Abstract
In the newly written concluding chapter to this original 1976 study of Quebec politics and society, the author examines events and attitudes to the mid-1980s. The author argues that the failed Meech Lake Accord, the rejection of the Charlottetown Accord by Quebec and by the rest of Canada, the emergence of the Bloc Québécois in the House of Commons, the strong yet vacillating support for sovereignty in Quebec, the constitutional exhaustion of the Canadian body politic, the polarization of Canada's two solitudes, and North American economic integration all pointed to an uncertain future for Quebec--and for Canada. While federal politicians have yet to consider Quebec sovereignty as a tenable option, he points out that some English-Canadian intellectuals and pundits were beginning to look seriously at such a possibility. The author concludes that the constitutional failures of the 1980s, and the political impasse these failures engendered, show that the options for constitutional renewal had narrowed considerably.
Edition
3rd
Place
Toronto, ON
Publisher
McClelland and Stewart
Date
1988
Language
en
Notes

Earlier editions by Kenneth McRoberts and Dale Posgate.

Citation
McRoberts, Kenneth. Quebec: Social Change and Political Crisis. 3rd ed. Toronto, ON: McClelland and Stewart, 1988.
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